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“He’s in the game. He’s getting in our heads.”

The Sacramento Bee, the leading paper in California’s state capital, went beyond Governor Moonbeam’s sneer by running a long editorial that roundly trashed Texas and Perry: “Actually, we think it’s more than a fart. It’s a cry for help. Perry can’t create jobs, he can only steal them from other states. His campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was a joke. His beloved Dallas Cowboys haven’t been in the Super Bowl since 1996.” The liberal Bee then offered to organize a “book drive” to help Texans graduate more high-school students, suggested that the Lone Star State could spend more on “mental health services,” and quoted the late Texas liberal Molly Ivins’s put-down of her native state as “a low-tax, low-service state.” “We can afford to do better,” the Bee quotes Ivins as saying. “We just don’t.”

But several observers acknowledged that Perry has gotten the better of the battle.

“Perry’s getting exactly what he wanted,” Gavin Newsom, the former Democratic mayor of San Francisco and now the state’s lieutenant governor, told radio station KQED. “He’s getting all kinds of press up and down the state, and why? Well, because he’s leaning in. He’s in the game. He’s getting in our heads.” Newsom ought to know. In 2011, he accompanied a group of state legislators on a fact-finding trip to Texas to interview former California business owners about their reasons for moving. Newsom told me at the time: “I am impressed with the focus on job creation I’ve seen here. We need to have a more balanced business climate in California.”

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Newsom ought to know. In 2011, he accompanied a group of state legislators on a fact-finding trip to Texas to interview former California business owners about their reasons for moving. Newsom told me at the time: “I am impressed with the focus on job creation I’ve seen here. We need to have a more balanced business climate in California.”

It’s really not that complicated, Nuisance. Just do the exact opposite of everything you’ve been doing in California.

“And he can think of nothing better to get Texans on his side than to tweak those crazy people out there in California, whom all good Texans love to hate.”

For good reasons. Boxer and Feinstein advocate disarming the citizens and the cops, telling Dorner that if no one has guns, he and all are safe. If only Dorner would visit the two floozies, just for a friendly chat. What fools rule the land and especially Cali.

Keep up the good work out there, California. Stay put and enjoy the sunshine and beaches. We’ll muddle through here in Texas. Oh, and thanks for the books. If you need them back we’ll get right on that.

They needed a fact finding trip to figure out that businesses like lower taxes and less regulation. Smart power!

Kataklysmic on February 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM

Paid for by the taxpayers. Perry did really well on this.

California politicians solve problems by printing checks. They cover the checks, by taxes. When a municipality fails, they cry. California is almost Detroit.

In Detroit, my hometown, they ‘grow’ jobs by transferring federal money, or giving tax breaks to show-businesses who will relocate into the city. However, if you want to start a real business, involving production, not retail, service or restaurant, you are up against an insane asylum.

A service and consumption economy is viable only if
1. you live off tax money like the Beltway
2. You also have a production sector, adding value to product, to generate the dollars spent for services

Most of Detroit thinks jobs come from other people, who are refusing to share their jobs. In Detroit, every sentence is parsed for evidence of racism, or anti-Obamaism. Cross the line and you are ridden out on a rail.

You have to be nuts to invest real manufacturing dollars there. A simple burglary of your premises can result in a five year show trial if some teen gets shot in the act by a security guard, but if you don’t show serious force, you will be scavenged to death.